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Ocean Energy: Tide and Tidal Power

Call no.: : 621.312134 CHA
Author: : Roger H. Charlier & Charles W. Finkl
Contributor: : Fezzanne Anak Raymond Umpu
Summary: Engineers dreams and fossil energy replacement schemes can come true. Man has been tapping the energy of the sea to provide power for his industries for centuries. Tindal energy combined with that of waves and marine winds rank among those most successfully put to work. Large scale plants are capital intensive but smaller ones, particullarly builts in China, have proven profitable. Since the initiation of the St Malo project in France, similar projects have gone into active service where methods have been devised to cut down on costs, new types of turbines developed and cost competitivess considerably improved. Tidal power has enormous potential. The book reviews recent progress in extracting power from the ocean, surveys the history of tidal power harnessing and updates a prior publication by the author.